Modern maternity care for non-disabled women often falls short in providing the steady, attentive support that birthing women ...

Same-sex couples lined up outside the City Clerk’s Office in Manhattan last Sunday to take advantage of New York’s first day of legal marriage for same-sex couples. A few counter protesters were ...

Sexual assault is a very real threat for American prisoners of war in the Iraqi conflict, but little is known about how the military prepares to deal with that trauma. (WOMENSENEWS)–Fear contorts Army ...

New York lawmakers voted to pass a package of bills to strengthen protections for victims of human trafficking. Also this week, Brown University students silently marched across campus to protest the ...

Up to 90% of women sentenced to prisons in the US are survivors of sexual and physical violence, either in childhood, adulthood or both. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently announced her ...

As the government wipes important sexual health information from official websites and targets research funding simply for the presence of words like “women” and “sex,” it’s more important than ever ...

It is no accident that Black women are being disproportionately affected by Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce. In the past 120 days, approximately 300,000 Black women have been forced out of the ...

In most U.S. states, the minimum marriage age for minors that have parental consent ranges from 12 to 17 years old. Headlines are sprouting everywhere about new court cases which may endanger Roe v ...

Credit: Keerthivasan Rajamani/keerth on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). (WOMENSENEWS)–Rosa Parks‘ most historic hour may have occurred on the bus in December 1955 but a moment that ...

The fact that medical professionals seldom ask women whether they served in the military upon assigning them a diagnosis is just one of the reasons why many female veterans fail to receive the ...

Thriving in college is hard. The US News and World Report reports that only 62% of American college students graduate from a university within six years’ time. The reasons range from academic to ...

Stimming, in all its forms, reflects our shared need for grounding, an expression of the connection between body and mind. Self-stimulatory behaviors are often associated with autism, but in truth, ...